The 2020 presidential election was unlike any other in recent memory: historic early voter turnout in essentially every state as COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths continued to climb. The pandemic reached disturbing heights as millions of Americans...

UTEP President Heather Wilson addressed the COVID-19 pandemic and the institution's work as a Hispanic serving university during her State of the University address Oct. 27 and 28, broadcasted on KTEP-FM. At the beginning of the broadcast Wilson opened...

The Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) at UTEP has adapted and expanded its services to include CAPS to Go, a virtual resource aimed to better help students cope in these tumultuous times.   Since the early emergence of the pandemic, CAPS...

KTEP 88.5 FM celebrated 70 years of providing news and music to the border region. The channel that began broadcasting educational instruction for the El Paso School District, now broadcasts jazz and classical music 24 hours a day, while hosting news...

Correction: A previous version of this article incorrectly stated that students needed to submit documentation to [email protected] to opt into the Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grade option. That is not true. Students only have to complete the Fall 2020...

The 2020 election proved to be the most nail-biting and consequential election of our lifetimes for many reasons: Record-high early voting and extremely close races with a raging pandemic as the backdrop. Voters cast a record-breaking 158,000,000 ballots...

There are more than 26,900 active COVID-19 infections in El Paso County as of Monday and El Paso County Judge Ricardo Samaniego said during a virtual news conference in late October that many local hospitals have already reached full capacity. Despite...

https://youtu.be/eTINO0kAl9I The spread of COVID-19 in El Paso has continued to rise, with the current number of active cases topping over 23,000 as of Friday, Nov. 6. In order to keep up with the infection rate, UTEP and the city of El Paso have partnered to...

A devastating pandemic was definitely not part of most people's plans for this year. It definitely wasn't part of mine as a graduating high school senior. Instead of hugging my friends in graduation photos, we had to social distance. Instead of being...

https://youtu.be/1GXpnXs9i0c El Paso has been the focus of national media attention because of the staggering amount of new COVID-19 cases these past few weeks and it’s not letting up. The county reported Wednesday a record-shattering 3,100 new cases...

UTEP’s W.M. Keck Center for 3D Innovation and the NASA MIRO Center for Space Exploration and Technology Research (cSETR) have announced plans to open a research unit in Youngstown, Ohio with Youngstown State University (YSU.) The collaboration will...

The Prospector Daily · S3 EP5: The Prospector Podcast (2020 Election, 915 documentary, rising COVID-19 cases + more) During this special 2020 Presidential Election episode of The Prospector Podcast, Margaret Cataldi shares a conversation with first-time...